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The IRS wants you — to share everything

But interviews with members of the groups paint a more dramatic picture than the bland language of the report, which just says the IRS “requested irrelevant (unnecessary) information because of a lack of managerial review, at all levels, of questions before they were sent to organizations seeking tax-exempt status.”

“They were asking for a U-Haul truck’s worth of information,” said Toby Marie Walker, the president of the Waco Tea Party.

Some groups even gave up in the face of the IRS questions.

Several of the groups were asked for résumés of top officers and descriptions of interviews with the media. One group was asked to provide “minutes of all board meetings since your creation.”

Some of the letters asked for copies of the groups’ Web pages, blog posts and social media postings — making some tea party members worry they’d be punished for their tweets or Facebook comments by their followers.

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Several of the groups were asked for résumés of top officers and descriptions of interviews with the media. One group was asked to provide “minutes of all board meetings since your creation.”

Some of the letters asked for copies of the groups’ Web pages, blog posts and social media postings — making some tea party members worry they’d be punished for their tweets or Facebook comments by their followers.

Apologies to Godwin, but I get a Nazi vibe with this. They loved to keep records. Or more like the FBI, but here they make their targets create their own dossier on themselves.

J. Christian Adams – who say he himself was also targeted for an audit in 2010 – says this was not just harrassment, it was opposition research for the Obama reelection campaign. Hard to argue with that.

J. Christian Adams – who say he himself was also targeted for an audit in 2010 – says this was not just harrassment, it was opposition research for the Obama reelection campaign. Hard to argue with that.

rockmom on May 15, 2013 at 11:58 AM

And let’s tie that together with Obama’s OFA superior data management capability, and I think we see the Left cataloguing all kinds of information on far too many private citizens.

Tell us how you really feel.
Before you take offence. I agree 100% with you and have said it many times here and elsewhere. I take it even further and blame the conservatives for sitting on their butts and letting the commie hippies win by taking over just about every facet of our lives. It’s not the fault of the liberal left that this country is ending. It’s the fault of all of the people that let them do it.